Aroian Karen J, Katz Anne, Kulwicki Anahid
Wayne State University College of Nursing, Detroit, MI 48202, USA.
J Nurs Scholarsh. 2006;38(3):255-61. doi: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2006.00111.x.
To describe successful and not-so-successful strategies for recruiting and retaining Arab Muslim immigrant women and their adolescent children for research.
A longitudinal study of mother-child adjustment of Arab immigrants to the US is used for illustration. A panel of experts was assembled and provided culturally specific advice about gatekeepers, advertising, data collectors, data collection, and how to track and encourage participation at subsequent time points in the study.
Most of the strategies recommended by the panel were overwhelmingly positive, including advice about data collectors, how to collect data, financial incentives, avoiding offending families, and personal contacts. Hiring data collectors who were able to establish personal and culturally appropriate relationships with study participants was the single most successful recruitment and retention strategy. Advice from cultural experts about which gatekeepers to engage and how to advertise for study participants was not productive.
Researchers should not only assemble a panel of cultural experts to provide advice about group specific strategies to build trust and maintain cultural sensitivity, but also to budget generously for time for data collectors to build and maintain rapport with study populations who, like Arab immigrant women, highly value personal relationships.
描述招募和留住阿拉伯穆斯林移民妇女及其青春期子女参与研究的成功与不太成功的策略。
以一项关于阿拉伯移民到美国后母子适应情况的纵向研究为例。组建了一个专家小组，就把关人、广告宣传、数据收集人员、数据收集，以及如何在研究的后续时间点跟踪和鼓励参与等方面提供具有文化特异性的建议。
专家小组推荐的大多数策略都非常积极，包括关于数据收集人员、如何收集数据、经济激励、避免冒犯家庭以及个人联系等方面的建议。雇佣能够与研究参与者建立个人且符合文化规范关系的数据收集人员是最成功的招募和留住参与者的策略。文化专家关于应接触哪些把关人以及如何为研究参与者做广告宣传的建议效果不佳。
研究人员不仅应组建一个文化专家小组，以提供关于建立信任和保持文化敏感性的群体特定策略的建议，还应为数据收集人员留出充足时间，以便他们与像阿拉伯移民妇女这样高度重视人际关系的研究人群建立并维持融洽关系。
